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You're not their target audience, then. It's like spam having obvious misspellings as a bandpass filter for lowered reasoning faculties. YouTube ads are made t
by washadjeffmad 3y ago
You're not their target audience, then.
It's like spam having obvious misspellings as a bandpass filter for lowered reasoning faculties. YouTube ads are made to appeal to the type of person who doesn't use adblocking. They don't care if they're intolerable to you - they already know you're not going to engage.
The question is, if ads are forced on the rest of us and we can't walk into the proverbial other room while they're on, how might we allow ads, make them useless for capturing real data about us, but have them appear valuable?
- dim13 3y agoOne correction: ads are not like spam. Ads are spam.
- ipqk 3y agoSpam is unsolicited, and will keep coming no matter what you do. Web ads are implicitly solicited. You go to websites knowing that they will serve ads. If you don't like it, you can stop going to said websites and no more ads.
- zeusk 3y agoEmail spam is implicitly solicited. You open your email knowing people are sending you spam. If you don't like it, you can stop opening your email and no more spam.
- mattnewton 3y agoIn fact, from YouTube’s point of view, if they are intolerable enough you can pay them for premium.